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2025-07-26

• 07:10 UTC (new) (history) 2025-07-26 Finding entities with given uuids in the current project . . . . mbork – One of the Node.js projects I work on has some fake/seed data in JSON files. These data are inserted into the local database during development. (Your mileage may vary – you might use Knex for seeding, or you might have your seeds as csvs or even sql files with a bunch of insert​s.) Of course quite a few tables contain some foreign keys. Sometimes I open one of the JSON files of such tables in Emacs, for example to edit some data – but it is often the case that the related data (pointed to by the foreign key) should also be changed. In cases like this it is very useful to be able to find those related data quickly. Some time ago I had the idea that it would be great if I could easily see all the data about some entity when the point is on its id.

2025-07-21

• 06:33 UTC (new) (history) 2025-07-21 Artist mode and Venn diagrams . . . . mbork – I mentioned Artist mode two years ago, but I’ve always treated it like a curiosity without too many actual uses. Well, it turns out it proved pretty useful after all (though you might call my case a bit contrived).

2025-07-14

• 06:48 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2025-07-07 Mass resetting Org mode checkboxes . . . . mbork – Thanks for your comments! I knew about org-checklist but it doesn't fully work in my case - I have several checkbox lists in the same file, and I . . .
• 05:58 UTC (new) (history) 2025-07-14 Interacting with an unreliable process . . . . mbork – Previously, we learned how to send some input to an external process via its stdin and receive its output from its stdout. The process, however, was simple and very reliable. In the real world, an external process can take its time (especially if it uses a database or a network to operate), die or even hang, and it’s good to support such cases.

2025-07-07

• 15:47 UTC (new) (history) 2025-07-07 Mass resetting Org mode checkboxes . . . . mbork – I’m a big fan of checklists. There are many cases where I need to follow some procedure containing many steps, and I really do not want to forget about any of them. This is especially challenging when it is something I need to do not very often, say, once a month, since it is very easy to forget about one or more steps, and properly memorizing the procedure would take many months. One example is preparing and sending invoices, which I need to do at the beginning of every month. Another (slightly less typical) example is packing for vacations – it’s very easy to forget to take something, and very important not to. In fact, I prepared a generic list of things to take with me on vacation more than fifteen years ago, and I use it several times a year, sometimes adding some new item, sometimes removing some no longer needed item. Me being me, I keep these checklists in Org mode, and they consist of one or more headings with a bunch of checkboxed lists.

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